Pictures of Lightning!. This is a subreddit where you can post media or discussions relating to the meteorological phenomena of lightning. NOTE: Please post original content only, or provide the original source of the media posted (strictly enforced). Founded 2012 · 102.5K members
102.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached
8.3K upvotes, which works out to
82 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Video 41%Image 34%Gallery 12%Link 8%Text 4%Question 1%
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The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/Lightning?
r/Lightning ("Pictures of Lightning!") describes itself this way: This is a subreddit where you can post media or discussions relating to the meteorological phenomena of lightning. NOTE: Please post original content only, or provide the original source of the media posted (strictly enforced). It was founded in 2012 and has 102.5K members.
How many members does r/Lightning have?
r/Lightning has about 102.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.3K upvotes, which is 82 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Lightning?
"Fuego Volcano erupts with volcanic lightning over Antigua, Guatemala" reached 8.3K upvotes and 56 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Lightning.
What subreddits are similar to r/Lightning?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Lightning?
Of the posts we hold, 41% are video posts and 34% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Lightning?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 22:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 06:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 06:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Lightning?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Lightning has 1.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Lightning, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.